(Trinidad Express) The silence at the murder scene was broken by the piecing screams of family members of the men shot dead in Debe on Thursday night.
Relatives wailed as the bodies of Kevin Fuller and Terry Edwards lay on the ground after being shot multiple times at Wellington Road.
A third man, Sanjay Mahabir, was also shot and he died at hospital.
Police suspect that Edwards and Fuller were the targets and Mahabir was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Edwards’ 14 year old daughter sat on the pavement near where her father’s body laid and screamed “Daddy!” repeatedly.
Her 12 year old brother spoke to himself, and was heard saying: “He was the second person I loved”.
Edwards and Fuller were liming at Runway 69 Shorts Bar when at least two gunmen pulled up and opened fire.
Fuller slumped and died on the floor of the bar.
Edwards ran a short distance near a Hindu temple and collapsed and died.
Mahabir, police said, ran out of the bar and threw himself on the road believing that the gunmen came to rob him.
He was shot in the head.
Fuller, 31, lived at Naparima Mayaro Road, Palymra, while Edwards and Mahabir were residents of Debe.
A fourth man was also shot, and police said he worked in the bar.
He was warded at hospital.
Fuller’s mother, Joanne Fuller, told the media revenge was the motive for the killing of her son.
Joanne Fuller said he and Edwards had been threatened many times following the shooting of a man three years ago.
She said last year Fuller’s girlfriend, Stacy Gomes, was shot several times in the hand and chest, but survived.
“They tried to kill my son and they tried to kill she”, said Joanne Fuller, as she hugged Gomes.
“Everybody know who did this. This was revenge for (name called) who was shot three years ago”, said the mother.
She said her son was innocently blamed for that incident.
“My son was not even nowhere around. Is long time they have threats on them (Fuller and Edwards), they wanted to kill them”, said Joanne Fuller.
The mother said she was not afraid to speak out against the killers.
“I don’t fear them, I fear God”, she said.
Edwards’ wife, Ann Marie Khadoo, said her husband and Fuller were scrap iron dealers.
Khadoo said her husband worked over the Carnival weekend and throughout the week to earn money to pay off their debts.
“They worked and ‘pull iron’ since Saturday. This evening they went and sell it. He came home and told me ‘Babe I going to collect my money and my car’. That is the car on the road (near the crime scene). Then I got a phone call and see him dead on the ground”, said Khadoo.
She said that the family owed the Housing Development Corporation and Courts Limited, and was afraid that their furniture and household items would be seized.
Khadoo said her 14 year old daughter suffered from gall stones, and was expected to undergo surgery next month.
“I don’t know how we are going to do this without him”, she said.
